well, i might as well put in my wish item: easy to sync software and a cable that doesn't cost $50! hey, phone companies, why not use a phreaking usb cable? throw in a usb drive and it would get me to open my wallet...
sure, phones that take photos are great, but not if it's hard to get stuff onto and off of.
Re:Alas those Days are Gone
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it's near impossible to find any pinball machines nowadays.:-(
Or when you do find one, one flipper doesn't work, or the bumpers don't have any power left in them... I haven't found a pinny that's any good for at least 5 years... One that you can hit the ball so hard that it hits the glass with a *crack* noise and mates think you just got a credit:)
I find it interesting that morse is basically just another language, esp when it gets up to high speed.
There are stories of people being able to undestand it without actively listening to it, and I once read about a ham that was listening to morse and as the sender increased speed, the ham thought to himself "when did he switch to voice?"
The real high speed receivers recognise whole words and sentences in morse as the letters are too fast to hear individually, the same way we hear words and not just sylables.
Turn on your radio? That will give you updates on the road...
The ABC election website was really good during the (Australian) election too, it had a nice flash applet that allowed you to zoom in on electorates and switch the view from previous, estimated wins and switching seats.
The only thing that disappointed me were the results it showed:(
Can i ask did you donate? They were up front from the start what was happening with the money... and it got 10,000 names.
I think if instead it was some airy fairy plan to increase advertising and awareness it wouldn't have gotten so many names.
Don't forget, that's 10,000 people buying the paper to show thier ad to thier friends and family, show around the office to fellow workers. Don't underestimate the word of mouth this will cause: People like this product so much that they raised $US 250,000 in 2 weeks for one ad. That says something.
They've also got links to put in signatures in emails and websites, screen savers, desktop images and flyers to print out and put on notice boards.
For your family there are two extensions that are worth installing; adblock and linkification.
Load a basic ruleset with adblock and that should be it (even turn off "allow web sites to install software"?).
Do they need to install that many more extensions? I like to install extensions to see what sort of dev is happening and finding new UI ideas, but for just day to day browsing once those main two are installed i'm happy:-)
If your time is worth nothing, no one will ever demand it of you.
This assumes that you have the possibility of making money every second of you life, or doing activities that reward you in some other non-finacial way.
Maybe the original poster likes scaving for equipment and seeing what he can do for no monetary outlay? That's like saying "why build a table/chair etc for yourself, when you can by one from ikea.." Some people enjoy doing activities that you may not.
and it beats sitting on the couch rotting in front of a tv.
After work, and instead of the hundred other things that need to be done around the house? Sheesh, that's why I work: to be able to afford good-quality tools that will save me time.
Reminds me of the joke about the mexican and working to buy a bigger boat:
The American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.
The Mexican replied, "Only a little while."
The American then asked, "Why didn't you stay out longer and catch more fish?"
The Mexican said, "With this I have more than enough to support my family's needs."
The American then asked, "But what do you do with the rest of your time?"
The Mexican fisherman said, "I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siesta with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos, I have a full and busy life."
The American scoffed, "I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing; and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat: With the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats. Eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor; eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then Los Angeles and eventually New York where you will run your ever-expanding enterprise."
The Mexican fisherman asked, "But, how long will this all take?"
To which the American replied, "15 to 20 years."
"But what then?" asked the Mexican. The American laughed and said that's the best part.
"When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions." "Millions?...Then what?" The American said, "Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos."
Well, if they only charged $30, ppl would go, it's only $30, so i'm not "stealing" that much from mega-corp. If it's priced at $100, it could cause ppl to rethink and not make copies.
Of course, this is only a theory on how the PHBs are thinking.
I work in the IT dept of one of the major chains (in australia), and what you describe does not happen. We try really hard to make sure the pricing is accurate. There is no hidden conspiracy on changing the prices to "trick" the customers.
Your should make a greater effort to document what you buy and the prices. I doubt that it is a great as you describe. I think people remember the one time it was a mistake and not the 100's of other times it has been correct.
Sure, mistakes can happen, price changes may not be transmitted across overnight, or the price is changed on the display, but not in the POS (or vice versa), or old shelf tickets are not removed. But there is absolutly no policy (hidden or not) of tricking people. Any manager doing so you find themselves out of a job pretty quickly, posibly even facing criminal charges.
In our stores if a price changes overnight (or during the day, which is rare but can happen), it will print out a new shelf ticket, which the night fill attach to the shelf.
Also in our stores we have several price verifiers that let people check the price of the goods. This uses the same price that is scanned at the POS. It's in our interests to get it right, if it's marked wrong the customer gets it at the lower price.
Anyway, to finish my rant, there really is no "conspiracy" to rip people off. This would be a very foolish thing to do... In such a cut-throat market (on average we make a 4% profit on each item.) you can't afford to lose customers to compitition, and trying to rip them off would lose trust very fast.
...But I can't understand why the US only has 10 days off per year? It's crazy! Most of Europe has much more. In Australia we get 20 days/year, but I've heard that germany gets 30/yr, which would be great!:-)
About six months ago i ran my flash drive through a full cycle of the washing machine, yeah, it was very wet for about 45 mins;-) When I found it i thought "oh well, throw it away".
I then misplaced it for two weeks or so, when I found it again I thought I'd give it a go and see what happened. To my surprise it worked fine, and it's still working fine six months later.
I'd tell you the brand, but a mate borrowed it yesterday to move some data around with. I think it's just some generic brand though.
All i want in a windows shell is crtl-ins to copy and shift-ins to paste. It's a pain to grab the mouse, right click on the title bar -> edit -> paste where as putty (nearly every app) handles those key combos fine.
I couldn't believe that these basic commands were still missing from cmd when work upgraded me to an XP box.
What a waste of water, i do hope that you're joking!
Re:One, two, three, four, I declare a flame-war!
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I live in Australia and I'm pretty sure our home invasion rates are not "through the roof". And I'd rather live here with that risk than having our children shooting each other.
Avoiding races? maybe check your facts. The US was in there the whole time, and falling behind the USSR the whole time. The US didn't pass USSR achievements until apollo.
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How about: ..from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
Leaders of the (free) world? Lead by example!
sure, phones that take photos are great, but not if it's hard to get stuff onto and off of.
Or when you do find one, one flipper doesn't work, or the bumpers don't have any power left in them... I haven't found a pinny that's any good for at least 5 years... One that you can hit the ball so hard that it hits the glass with a *crack* noise and mates think you just got a credit :)
There are stories of people being able to undestand it without actively listening to it, and I once read about a ham that was listening to morse and as the sender increased speed, the ham thought to himself "when did he switch to voice?"
The real high speed receivers recognise whole words and sentences in morse as the letters are too fast to hear individually, the same way we hear words and not just sylables.
wow, great story! :-) This is your brain; This is your brain running fsck :)
The ABC election website was really good during the (Australian) election too, it had a nice flash applet that allowed you to zoom in on electorates and switch the view from previous, estimated wins and switching seats.
The only thing that disappointed me were the results it showed :(
I think if instead it was some airy fairy plan to increase advertising and awareness it wouldn't have gotten so many names.
Don't forget, that's 10,000 people buying the paper to show thier ad to thier friends and family, show around the office to fellow workers. Don't underestimate the word of mouth this will cause: People like this product so much that they raised $US 250,000 in 2 weeks for one ad. That says something.
They've also got links to put in signatures in emails and websites, screen savers, desktop images and flyers to print out and put on notice boards.
Load a basic ruleset with adblock and that should be it (even turn off "allow web sites to install software"?).
Do they need to install that many more extensions? I like to install extensions to see what sort of dev is happening and finding new UI ideas, but for just day to day browsing once those main two are installed i'm happy :-)
I guess there must be a sweet spot in the pricing ... the trick is finding it before you go broke :-)
This assumes that you have the possibility of making money every second of you life, or doing activities that reward you in some other non-finacial way.
Maybe the original poster likes scaving for equipment and seeing what he can do for no monetary outlay? That's like saying "why build a table/chair etc for yourself, when you can by one from ikea.." Some people enjoy doing activities that you may not.
and it beats sitting on the couch rotting in front of a tv.
Reminds me of the joke about the mexican and working to buy a bigger boat:
The American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.
The Mexican replied, "Only a little while."
The American then asked, "Why didn't you stay out longer and catch more fish?"
The Mexican said, "With this I have more than enough to support my family's needs."
The American then asked, "But what do you do with the rest of your time?"
The Mexican fisherman said, "I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siesta with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos, I have a full and busy life."
The American scoffed, "I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing; and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat: With the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats. Eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor; eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then Los Angeles and eventually New York where you will run your ever-expanding enterprise."
The Mexican fisherman asked, "But, how long will this all take?"
To which the American replied, "15 to 20 years."
"But what then?" asked the Mexican. The American laughed and said that's the best part.
"When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions." "Millions?...Then what?" The American said, "Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos."
Of course, this is only a theory on how the PHBs are thinking.
They probably do buy reducing the cost of the items.
I work in the IT dept of one of the major chains (in australia), and what you describe does not happen. We try really hard to make sure the pricing is accurate. There is no hidden conspiracy on changing the prices to "trick" the customers.
Your should make a greater effort to document what you buy and the prices. I doubt that it is a great as you describe. I think people remember the one time it was a mistake and not the 100's of other times it has been correct.
Sure, mistakes can happen, price changes may not be transmitted across overnight, or the price is changed on the display, but not in the POS (or vice versa), or old shelf tickets are not removed. But there is absolutly no policy (hidden or not) of tricking people. Any manager doing so you find themselves out of a job pretty quickly, posibly even facing criminal charges.
In our stores if a price changes overnight (or during the day, which is rare but can happen), it will print out a new shelf ticket, which the night fill attach to the shelf. Also in our stores we have several price verifiers that let people check the price of the goods. This uses the same price that is scanned at the POS. It's in our interests to get it right, if it's marked wrong the customer gets it at the lower price.
Anyway, to finish my rant, there really is no "conspiracy" to rip people off. This would be a very foolish thing to do... In such a cut-throat market (on average we make a 4% profit on each item.) you can't afford to lose customers to compitition, and trying to rip them off would lose trust very fast.
About six months ago i ran my flash drive through a full cycle of the washing machine, yeah, it was very wet for about 45 mins ;-) When I found it i thought "oh well, throw it away".
I then misplaced it for two weeks or so, when I found it again I thought I'd give it a go and see what happened. To my surprise it worked fine, and it's still working fine six months later.
I'd tell you the brand, but a mate borrowed it yesterday to move some data around with. I think it's just some generic brand though.
Cool, thanks, never knew about the right click thing! :)
no, just living in a very water poor part of the world where people don't seem to care about how much water they use as long as the lawn is green.
All i want in a windows shell is crtl-ins to copy and shift-ins to paste. It's a pain to grab the mouse, right click on the title bar -> edit -> paste where as putty (nearly every app) handles those key combos fine. I couldn't believe that these basic commands were still missing from cmd when work upgraded me to an XP box.
What a waste of water, i do hope that you're joking!
I live in Australia and I'm pretty sure our home invasion rates are not "through the roof". And I'd rather live here with that risk than having our children shooting each other.
Also try the no cost version of Zone Alarm.
These are basic and no cost bits of software I run on my parents machines (and Firefox ;-) ... Though I'd love to buy them a mac one day :)
Avoiding races? maybe check your facts. The US was in there the whole time, and falling behind the USSR the whole time. The US didn't pass USSR achievements until apollo.